To:                          RNS

From:                    European Assets Trust PLC

Date:                     31 March 2022

LEI:                         213800N61H8P3Z4I8726

April Quarterly Dividend

European Assets Trust PLC ("the Company") announces that a dividend of 2.2 pence per share will be paid on 29 April 2022 to shareholders on the register on 8 April 2022, having an ex-dividend date of 7 April 2022. 

In addition, the Company has paid a dividend of 2.2 pence per share in January 2022.  It will also pay further dividends of 2.2 pence per share in July and October 2022.  These four interim dividends, with a cumulative total of 8.8 pence per share, provide an annual payment to shareholders representing six per cent of the closing net asset value per share of the Company as at 31 December 2021.

As at 29 March 2022, the latest practicable date prior to publication of this announcement, an annual dividend of 8.8 pence per share represents a yield of 7.5 per cent calculated with reference to the Company's closing share price of 117.0 pence that day.

Enquiries:

Scott McEllen

BMO Investment Business Limited                          Tel:  0207 628 8000